TRANSMITTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transmitting mean? 

• TRANSMITTING (noun)
  The noun TRANSMITTING has 1 sense:

1. the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted

  Familiarity information: TRANSMITTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSMITTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

transmission; transmittal; transmitting

Hypernyms ("transmitting" is a kind of...):

sending (the act of causing something to go (especially messages))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transmitting"):

forwarding (the act of sending on to another destination)

mailing; posting (the transmission of a letter)

telephotography (transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance)

Derivation:

transmit (send from one person or place to another)

 Context examples 

Molecules transmitting signals into cells often act through receptors in the plasma membrane that stimulate production of second messengers.

(Ion Channel and Phorbal Esters Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Exposure to light rapidly activated the ipRGCs and the pain-transmitting cells, which previously had been linked to migraine pain.

(How Light Boosts Migraine Pain, NIH, US)

A comprehensive set of standards for communications between medical imaging devices, including handling, storing and transmitting information in medical imaging.

(DICOM, NCI Thesaurus)

A uniquely defined quantity appearing in the computer file created according to the DICOM standard of transmitting images.

(DICOM Header Tag, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, integrins function as mechanoreceptors and provide a force-transmitting physical link between the ECM and the cytoskeleton.

(ECM-Receptor Interaction Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Neurotrophin/Trk signaling is regulated by connecting a variety of intracellular signaling cascades, which include MAPK pathway, PI-3 kinase pathway, and PLC pathway, transmitting positive signals like enhanced survival and growth.

(Neurotrophin Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The retina is a thin layer of cells in the back of the eye that includes light-sensing photoreceptor cells and other neurons involved in transmitting visual information to the brain.

(Immune cells in the retina can spontaneously regenerate, National Institutes of Health)

The fraction of beam intensity being lost per unit length of the transmitting material in a chosen x direction.

(Attenuation Coefficient, NCI Thesaurus)

This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Exposing malaria-transmitting mosquitoes to light at two-hour intervals during the night or at late daytime could inhibit their biting behaviour and reduce malaria transmission.

(Shining light at night quells mosquito bites, SciDev.Net)